I think what you meant to say is that those people prefer to play inferior games. Their actions and their words dont match. Its a contradiction in itself.

Kylie its sad that you talk that way about a Miyamoto production

Either Reggie really sucks at this sustained marketing thing despite the big boom he stirred up early on or Iwata and some Japanese minded executive with more clout have their hands so far up Reggie's...

You know what either way doesn't matter, they've sort of shown for years that they have issues in regards to how to appeal to the major fanbase, you'd just think with all that has been going on they'd get a little bit more smarter. Don't think anyone with sense is asking for a Halo-killer but pushing for games with more bite like Metriod, Star Fox, Fire Emblem or even Kid Icarus to be shown off shouldn't be this hard considering they used to do it all the time and technically still do it with their portables.

First quarter this year they sold 160k consoles, second quarter 300k, 3rd quarter is already over 700k. Demand is increasing as games are being released. Gamecube had droughts throughout its lifetime, with everything announced Wii U's drought appears to be over.

Whether these last sales count for next year or this one is irrelevant to your claim it'll be lucky to reach 15 million lifetime. (sorry for my question at the end, should've worded it differently)

I never claimed a single title will turn things around. I believe a collection of games will turn things around. Wii Fit U and DK for example are probably not going to cause a massive boost but they'll keep the console from dropping like it did the start of this year. It's what Pikmin 3, Wonderful 101, Rayman Legends and Wii Fit U were originally for, keeping the console alive and hyped.

I'm curious to see how well the competition's first year actually goes, neither company has a flawless record.

Why are people complaining so much about Nintendo here?

It's not like the VGX had any world premieres or annoucements that were any special. Most of those "World Premieres" were nothing more than a new look or new trailer for already announced games.

Seriously, the VGX were very lame this year. Even moreso than the years before.

And people are jumping at Nintendo for doing the same as any other devs that were present for that show... Really guys.

That hint at a Metroid game, how the Retro Studio responded when asked how many teams the studio had...
Make of that what you will.

Nah, a review score doesn't make a game superior to all other games.  For example to someone who likes driving games Forza, or Need For Speed Rivals, will do the job more nicely than any of Nintendo's top rated games.

Unless it's cell shaded like Wind Waker, people will cheer at e3 when they reveal Zelda U, the bext game Aonuma will have created in his career. Or so, that's what he says he wants to make...

People are just haters.   Its what happens when you sell the most consoles with "lesser" hardware.  The DS and 3DS have destroyed Playstations handhelds, while the Wii beat the 360 and PS3 by a decent margin, even though it was pretty much just a gamecube with motion controls.  Every trend I see points to the Wii U beating the Xbone for sure this gen, and giving the PS4 a a run for its money, but people just want to hate.   DKCR sold 6 million while Infamous 2 sold 1.4 million, yet people think that Infamous will be a system seller.   The only true system seller that Sony and Microsoft have is Call of Duty, and if you look at overall COD sales, they are way down and people are losing interest.  The hardcore COD fans always go crazy for it at launch, so its not a suprise that the PS4/X1 have sold well so far.  Once that crowd already has them these systems are going to fall on their face.  TLOU was an awesome game, released on a console with 75 million units and only sold 3.5 million.  Thats about how many people actually care about griity/mature games out there.

The only number I find for VGA viewers is from 2009 and it's at 650k, a decrease from the previous years and Nintendo Directs have hundreds of thousands of views. Perhaps a glimpse of SSB or X would've been nice but I assume they had a small window of time to show something and Donkey Kong is what's going to have to move systems after the holidays.

No, it could release now without problems. With that hardware it wouldn't need the 1-year head start. But Super HD twins, that is the name we should use to the new consoles!